Vocalist Dave Escamilla Splits With Crown The Empire

In their official statement Crown The Empire compares being in a band to being in a relationship, and although we don’t know who’s dumped who yet, or whether the feeling was mutual, what we do know is Dave Escamilla is no longer a part of Crown The Empire.
Following a full summer run as part of The Vans Warped Tour, Dave Escamilla took a hiatus in the fall, while the rest of the band went on to headline The Retrograde Tour with Blessthefall, and New Years Day.

The official statement posted via Facebook this afternoon has left some fans feeling a little confused and some downright upset at the following statement:

“We’ve never heard or seen Dave make anything, artistically or musically in the 4 years he was in our band, so we’re just as excited to see what he does make as you are.”

Take a read through the official statement and see where you stand, be sure to let us know in the comments below, simple poor choice of wording taken the wrong way by sensitive internet trolls, or harsh dig at the musical creativity of Escamilla? Tell us what you think!

Official Statement:

“Bands are a lot like a relationship; you’ve all heard this. Sometimes when shit goes south, it’s hard to tell who broke up with whom, if you’re ever going to get back together, when to give them back their things – it’s messy, and it takes a while to figure out how to get back to focusing on just yourself, when all you’ve known for a good part of your life is sharing it with this other person.

Dave isn’t in Crown The Empire anymore. That’s how the chips have landed after the smoke has cleared. Everyone will try and make it out like it’s a big corporate thing, and say we’re “very excited about the future of what both he and ourselves make as we all continue to pursue music” but we all know that when you see your girl or guy with someone else it sucks. The difference is that we turned to each other during this time. The four of us found solace, respect, friendship renewed, and our purpose within this band, and stopped letting our selfishness divide us. Instead we’ve come together, bonded more than ever to help build each other up.

We’ve never heard or seen Dave make anything, artistically or musically in the 4 years he was in our band, so we’re just as excited to see what he does make as you are. We’ve had enough time to lick our wounds and can truly say we wish him the best, but we don’t want any of our fans to think he was at the heart of what made Crown – Crown. I don’t think you’ll see him say anything different. Yes, – the “members” as you know it of Crown The Empire were not the primary song writers, but to us, our best friend Brendan, has basically always been in our band, and wrote with us from the very first song. An architect can’t say he’s made a house without someone to actually build it. It’s not like some random person that we pay and say “hey make us famüs” he’s literally a brother of the band, and that has not changed. We will continue on as we have, together, tighter, more creative, and more excited, amicable and finally free of negativity than we’ve ever been.

Dave is an incredible talent that we’ll never be able to replace in our sound, but we’re excited to build an identity around Andy as the singer of this band once more, and we can’t wait to bring our creations to you.

Because at the end of the day, anything we create is ultimately not for us. It’s for a point in time in the world and the people in it. Thank you all for being participants in our fucked up little universe so far, and we hope that you all will stick around to see how it evolves.

With Love, Andy, Brandon, Taddie, Tree”

Crown The Empire currently has only one show scheduled for the foreseeable future which is June 9th, 2017 as part of Download Fest over in the UK. Meanwhile both Crown The Empire sans Escamilla and Escamilla with his solo/mysterious new project seem to be hard at work in the studio. Excited to see what comes from both of these creative endeavors.

Bring Me The Horizon have just dropped a music video for the song, “Avalanche”, off their album, That’s The Spirit, which as released last fall.

This live footage music video truly captures the grandiose scale of a BMTH show, and we can pretty much guarantee that if you didn’t want to see a Bring Me The Horizon show before, you may want to check one out now! Epic!